The A320 is a cute looking aeroplane compared to many modern efforts
And it flies just like the manufacturer intends - artificially! It's fly by wire controls make it stable and easy to operate with many of the flying skills normally expected of a pilot enhanced by it's systems. And it's handling can be changed by the software engineers - as it has been on several occasions before! I would say it looks functional - which is how it handles. You could only get a measure of how it would really fly with all the automatics disabled in direct law - which has never happened to me in 6000 hours on the type.